Freeze dried, pre-cooked, `instant` ramen is survival food. Add an egg, some veggies, and some meat - and it becomes a good meal. Ramen served up at a ramen restaurant is very good. If not, the restaurant would have shut down within weeks of opening.

TJrandom wrote:Freeze dried, pre-cooked, `instant` ramen is survival food. Add an egg, some veggies, and some meat - and it becomes a good meal. Ramen served up at a ramen restaurant is very good. If not, the restaurant would have shut down within weeks of opening.

I take that frozen beef "fajita meat" strips and chop them up and add them to ramen that I soaked in beef bouillon.

This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.

Elliott Antman, M.D., associate dean for clinical/translational research at Harvard Medical School and senior physician in the Cardiovascular Division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said the findings of the new study should be disregarded.

“This is a flawed study and you shouldn’t use it to inform yourself about how you’re going to eat,” said Antman, immediate past president of the AHA. “The AHA has reviewed the totality of the evidence and we continue to maintain that no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day is best for ideal heart health.”

The level of care inside America’s prisons, and particularly the quality of the food, has fallen so far prisoners are using ramen noodles as their preferred form of money for buying and selling goods and other favours, a new study has found.